Infrastructure Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Monitoring
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Monitoring skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 165 177
Rank change year-on-year -75 +12 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring 6 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.085% 0.19% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.22% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £306 - £385
25th Percentile £370 - £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -0.25% +16.57%
75th Percentile £519 - £576
90th Percentile - - £617
England median daily rate £492 £413 £530
% change year-on-year +19.27% -22.17% -1.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Infrastructure Monitoring falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,916 3,235 4,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.26% 89.49% 83.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,539 2,093 2,411
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £466 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% -5.86% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £582
90th Percentile £675 £649 £665
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 180 381
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.44 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.11 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.19% +14.15% -4.97%
75th Percentile £71.50 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.63 £63.75
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

Infrastructure Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Infrastructure Monitoring job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Monitoring in the North of England

Infrastructure Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Monitoring within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire -42 4 £466 -6.85%
North West -53 2 - - 3
Infrastructure Monitoring
England

Infrastructure Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
1 2 (33.33%) Datadog
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support
2 2 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (33.33%) EMC VNX
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Runbook
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Key Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) NCDA
1 2 (33.33%) NCIE
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) NFS
2 2 (33.33%) SRDF
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
2 2 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (33.33%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 2 (33.33%) SnapMirror
2 2 (33.33%) SnapVault
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Veeam
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) 3PAR
2 2 (33.33%) Brocade
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
2 2 (33.33%) Pure Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds